This activity directory contains user participation counts.  A counter is
incremented every time a user says something on the #setiquest IRC channel.
This metric measures participation, not attendance. A user needs to say
something to be counted.

The format of the files in the activity directory is user name followed by a
number. In most of the files this number is a count of how many lines a user
has written. A line like "setiquest.01-17-2012.log" is a timestamp delimiter
that separates user counts for that day.  In the attendance file the number
field is a count of how many community meetings a user has participated in.

Daily logging of the setiQuest IRC channels began in spring 2011 and before
that only the weekly meetings were routinely recorded. Here is a description
of each activity file:

2010.txt                  - A list of user activity separated by days. 
2011.txt                  - ...
2012.txt                  - ...
community_meetings.txt    - Community meetings extracted from above files.
attendance.txt            - The number of meetings each user has attended.
attendance_reduced.txt    - Same as above but with single attendance removed.
readme.txt                - This file.
years_combined.txt        - All yearly files combined for easy reading.

Currently these statistics are generated manually by scripts. Some sort of
cron automation is planned for the future so that these activity statistics
can be used as a tool for monitoring the channel at a glance.  Due to
complexities caused by user name variation it is unlikely that the attendance
report will be automated.